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Amelia Marzec Adjunct Assistant Professor Queens College Hunter College Imagine a future where the American dollar is worthless. To re-build the economy, citizens must use the only resource available: decades of postconsumer waste. With no way to afford expensive international electronics, but with a deep human desire to connect, they sift through products that have … Continue reading “Design for Dystopia”

Yoon Soo Lee, Professor Department of Design College of Visual & Performing Arts University of Massachusetts Dartmouth Founding Faculty Vermont College of Fine Arts In October of 2012, I started my research into South Korea: the long lost memories, the Korean sentiment, how I am Korean, and how I am not Korean. I started a … Continue reading “My Korea Studies: Gender, Race and Language in South Korea”

Peter Fine Assistant Professor of Graphic Design University of Wyoming A book project Fine is working on with the poet Carmen Gimenez Smith. Their collaborative dialogue addresses the personification of objects: the voice that their former and present lives come to form. The texts are informed by both fiction and non-fiction, and in this way, … Continue reading “dis_assemblage”

Carma Gorman Associate Professor of Design History The University of Texas Austin Why does it makes sense to talk about industrial design—as distinct from the fine arts or even graphic design—from a national perspective. Gorman argues that design historians need to rethink the way they assign ‘nationality’ to products in order to more accurately capture … Continue reading “What’s ‘American’ about American Industrial Design?”

Stephen Eskilson Professor of Art History Eastern Illinois University Author of Graphic Design: A New History (Yale University Press) and editor of reviews for Design and Culture (Bloomsbury) talks about different publishing experiences including books, journal articles, book reviews as well as digital and self-publishing.

Doug Clouse Co-Founder and Principal of The Graphics Office Adjunct Professor at Purchase College and the Fashion Institute of Technology Doug Clouse will speak about his research on lettering on nineteenth-century American gravestones and memorials. His work focusses on lettering in the Midwest, with particular attention paid to gravestones in and around Wichita, Kansas and … Continue reading “Not Dead But Sleepeth: A Study of Gravestone Lettering”

Eli Neugeboren Assistant Professor Communication Design New York City College of Technology, CUNY Comic books are now considered high art and are included in museum collections around the world. They are given national awards, reviewed alongside literature and are printed on high quality paper. Their origins were not so lofty. Comic books were cheap. They … Continue reading “History of Color In Comic Art: Technology, Aesthetics, and 64 Colors”

Anita Giraldo Assistant Professor Communication Design New York City College of Technology, CUNY Steel Ice & Stone is an interactive installation consisting of nine 3 x 4” backlit photographic images, each equipped with a dedicated sensor-driven sound unit which play back nine sound compositions. It was first exhibited in December 2013 at ArtWorks Trenton, followed … Continue reading “The Design and Branding of a Project”

Grace Moon Adjunct Professor Graphic Design, Dept of Art Queens College, CUNY Black and White: Basic Color Terms is the first chapter from a manuscript titled, An Illustrated History of Color, in theory and practice. The overall scope of this book, as the title implies, is to set out a comprehensive account and analysis of … Continue reading “Black and White: Basic Color Terms”

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